Google is developing “in-house” central processors for its notebook and tablet computers, a sign of how major tech players see internal chip development as the key to their competitiveness, while the semiconductor availability crisis continues.
The US web giant plans to roll out CPUs for laptops and tablets, which run on the Chrome operating system, around 2023, Nikkei Asia reported, citing three sources familiar with the development. It seems Google is encouraged by Apple’s success with its custom M1 chips. Companies like Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Tesla, Baidu, and Alibaba Group Holding are working to build their own semiconductors for their cloud services and electronic products.
Google is also stepping up efforts to build mobile processors for its Pixel smartphones and other devices after announcing that it will use internal processor chips in its upcoming Pixel 6 series for the first time.
“The new CPUs and mobile processors that Google is developing are based on chip designs from Arm, the British chip company controlled by Softbank whose intellectual property is used in over 90% of the world‘s mobile devices,” Nikkei Asia revealed. in a report.
The document also claims that Google is hiring chip engineers around the world, including Israel, India, and Taiwan. Smaller chips can add computing power to devices with limited or passive cooling, such as tablets, thin and light laptops, and cell phones.